This chapter covers booting your Amiga system for the first time, and using the keylock, keyboard, and keyboard mouse equivalents. What you see when you turn on the Amiga depends on whether you have a hard disk based system or a floppy disk based system with no hard disk. When a floppy-based Amiga system is turned on, it looks for a bootable floppy disk in the internal floppy drive, DFO:. This disk can be a copy of your Workbench disk or a bootable application disk. If a bootable disk is not found, the Amiga prompts you by displaying a disk being inserted into a drive.
When a bootable floppy disk is inserted into DFO:, the screen goes blank while the Amiga loads the system information it needs from the disk. Booting from floppy takes about two minutes. When the process is complete, you should see a screen similar to that illustrated in Figure 2-1. The Amiga can boot directly from a hard disk if your system has one. You do not need to insert any floppy disks. Chapter 2 Getting Started Hard Disk-Based Systems Floppy-Based Systems Booting